Victoria Beckham banned eye contact during Top Of The Pops, says ex-host Gail Porter leading band to swear at her
VICTORIA Beckham did not want people to look her in the eye on Top Of The Pops, former host Gail Porter has revealed.
Posh performed Out Of Your Mind with Dane Bowers live on the show and it was the defining song of her short-lived solo music career.
But Gail has claimed their team warned against people staring at them when they visited the studios in 2000.
She said: “Victoria and Dane’s people had banned anyone from making eye contact with them while they were there, so it was super awkward.
“And lovely Travis, I was looking at them and they were making w***er signals.
“So anyway, I am standing going, ‘It’s Gail Porter, it’s still No1, it’s still Top Of The Pops’, and because the cameras can’t see them, please welcome to the stage Victoria Beckham and Dane Bowers, Out Of Your Mind.”
As the pair performed, Gail recalled running to the make-up room and seeing Travis, fronted by Fran Healy, making rude gestures.
And to make it worse, she said Victoria and Dane froze after their performance because they were unsure if the cameras were on them.
Gail explained: “I had to walk behind them to get off and I said to the director, ‘What do I do?’
“There was a camera there and they weren’t sure if the camera was still on, so they didn’t want to move until it left.
“We were all sitting in the make-up room, watching on the monitor, going, ‘They’re still there’.
“The cameraman was like, ‘I’m not moving, this is too funny’. I said, ‘That’s mean’. He said: ‘It’s hilarious’.”